Browse Arts and Humanities stories - February, 2009

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  • Writer Gary Nabhan to Read for UA
    UANews | Gary Nabhan, an award-winning poet and UA research social scientist, will read his work during the UA Prose Series.
  • Fine Arts to Join Colleges of Letters and Science
    UANews | The new partnership of colleges will now be titled The Colleges of Letters, Arts and Science. 
  • New Photography Exhibit Opens at UA Poetry Center
    UANews | Photography by LaVerne Harrell Clark, the UA Poetry Center's first director, will be on display through May.
  • Vaudeville Lives
    UANews | The world’s largest Vaudeville memorabilia collection has been donated to the UA. The collection will be integrated into fine arts coursework.
  • UA Videos, Students Earn ADDY Awards
    UANews | UA students and several of the University's collaborators were honored this month for various marketing videos and advertisements.
  • Biosphere 2 Will Hold Two-Part 'Survival of the Sphere' Event on UA Campus
    UANews | Both the special seminar and the performance are free to the public.
  • Museum Documenting Jesuit Contact with American Indians
    UANews | A project headed by the Arizona State Museum's ethnohistorical research office and the UA German studies department is their first joint attempt to transcribe and translate German text into English.
  • Pride of Arizona Named Top Five in Country
    UANews | The College Band Directors National Association awarded the UA's Pride of Arizona and four other college bands the national honor after a juried competition.
  • A Mind Wide Open
    UANews | UA master's of fine art student Margaret Kimball, who produces intricate images of seemingly random thoughts and ideas, is showcasing her work at a UA gallery. 
  • Annual Southwest Indian Art Fair This Weekend at State Museum
    UANews | Navajo jewelry maker Julius Keyonnie is the 2009 Southwest Indian Art Fair's featured artist.
  • Event Celebrates UA School of Art's Past, Present, Future
    UANews | For the first time, UA studio art graduate students will have their studio spaces in one facility – the 25,000 square-foot Visual Arts Graduate Research Laboratory.
  • Arizona Public Media Announces New Radio Show
    UANews | KUAZ-FM radio has introduced a new weekend show and a new Saturday schedule.
  • Hopi Artistry Celebrated at Arizona State Museum
    UANews | Try your hand at making a woven basket plaque and learn about the history of Hopi baskets during the opening celebration for the "Circles of Life: Katsina Imagery in Hopi Basketry" exhibition.
  • 36th Annual President's Concert Features the Best from the UA School of Music
    UANews | Student competition winners are violist Amber Reed, pianist Rouzbeh Tebyanian, bass baritone Seth Kershisnik and flutist Tori Hauk.
  • UA Press Book Named a Finalist in the National Book Critics Circle Awards
    UANews | Juan Felipe Herrera's "Half of the World in Light: New and Selected Poems" has been named one of five poetry finalists for the National Book Critics Circle Award.